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EDITORIAL COMMENTS

The Journal of New Energy is devoted to aid in solving the world's energy problems by providing rapid professional communications on new-energy topics. Our goal is to be one of the leading publications to inform scientists and engineers about the latest new-energy devices and systems that can reduce our reliance on scarce, expensive, and polluting fossil fuels.

The essence of new science is discovery. Major new discoveries are seldom the result of theoretical investigation of previous discoveries. Major new discoveries precede major new theories. To have a major new theory requires a sequence of discovery; hypothesis and experiment to test hypothesis (repeated many times); the creation of a new scientific fact; and then a major theory. The definition of a scientific fact is: the close agreement of a series of observations of the same phenomena.

Cold fusion was a major new scientific discovery. That anomalous amounts of excess heat can be produced in a properly conducted cold fusion experiment is now, by definition, a scientific fact. However, there are at least 26 theories of cold fusion. Perhaps one of them is correct. As of September 1997, there is no major new scientific theory of cold fusion.

True scientific researchers are not encumbered by previous knowledge that has been institutionalized as dogma. True scientists, however, must have a combination of healthy skepticism bolstered by an intense desire to explain new scientific anomalies. The contributors to this journal include such scientists. From such contributors this journal is pleased to present another remarkable new discovery: torsion fields.

In this issue (and planned for future issues) this journal will present experimental evidence for the existence of other fields in addition to electric, magnetic, and gravity. Peers (especially in the United States) to review papers on torsion fields are almost non-existent. Therefore, until such peers emerge, some of this new material may be published as "Editor's Choice." See the paper by Akimov and Shipov in this issue and marvel at fields that appear to travel faster than light!

Now that Low-Energy Nuclear Transmutation Kits are being sold, this editor is pleased to announce our plans to solicit and publish the latest information of experimental low-energy-produced nuclear transmutation. Don't miss an issue.